Wearable Stroke Treatment Shows Promising Results In New Study 

Medtech startup BrainQ, which develops therapies for people with neural damage, says its electromagnetic treatment could help significant recovery after a stroke. 

BrainQ carried out a randomized controlled study at 15 top academic centers in the US, using its wearable, AI-powered EMAGINE device to treat patients who had experienced a moderate to severe ischemic stroke. 

It says the results suggest that patients who received the treatment were more likely to see a greater reduction in disability levels than patients in the control group, and were more than twice as likely to be disability-free three months after the stroke. 

According to the company, which has offices in Israel and the US, EMAGINE is the first-ever wearable cloud-connected therapy designed for people severely impaired after a stroke. 

“Millions of stroke survivors worldwide endure life-altering disabilities. The EMAGINE trial results mark a big step towards a therapy that can help these patients reclaim their lives, all from the comfort of their homes,” said BrainQ CEO Yotam Drechsler. 

 “In the past several decades, we have made tremendous progress in emergency stroke treatments that reduce, but do not fully prevent, brain injury, but we have had limited success in developing therapies that can meaningfully reverse the life-debilitating disabilities still often caused by stroke,” said Dr. Jeffrey L. Saver, Director of Stroke at UCLA and the National Co-Principal Investigator for the EMAGINE study. 

“The welcome results from this study suggest there is a chance that even severe stroke patients may be able to regain freedom from disability with this therapy.”